My kid just told me that his high school is deleting his entire student gmail account by the end of the month–he’s trying to save all of his essays in his google drive, emails, all the other schoolwork on his account for college. So far, I’ve only seen Google Takeout and GradGopher, has anyone used these? Any recommendations?
Is this a school email account? Guess so.
Can he start another gmail account of his own, and port over the documents?
yes, it is. i knew his school issued him a google account through the school, but didn’t know that a majority of his college prep work and essays would be deleted with it.
he has another gmail account already and he can move the google drive over, but it looks it will take awhile, plus he wants to save his emails too which that won’t do.
I googled “copy gmail email to another gmail account” and there are lots of results. Read through and see which makes the most sense to you.
This is a good warning to anyone with a school account that won’t be there after they graduate!
Set up a new gmail account and move everything over. I have done this successfully many times. Here is one link but there are tons of others. It can be a little tricky, but it’ll work. My S has his school emails forwarding into a backup account as they come in, but you can also port over existing emails. There’s a bunch of youtube videos or links to see how to do it. Good luck!
Thank you for the suggestions! I have looked at options like this already, but it looks like there are a lot of steps and it will take a lot of time to actually go through. I was hoping that if anyone had experience with Google Takeout or GradGopher they would let me know. They seem to take less steps and do the entire student email account, not just emails, but essays in google drive too.
Interesting my junior said last week that the guidance counselor talked to all the juniors about college admissions and one thing he said was DO NOT use your school gmail for applications or anything you need after high school because of this.
I merged my old undergrad email account with another gmail account. I literally just had to click a few buttons and all the emails were forwarded over. Sure, it took a while but it all happened in the background so I didn’t need to do anything.
@VickiSoCal That was very good advice given by your GC. This is especially true for FAFSA, which will be used LONG after high school is over.
@STEM2017 The FAFSA is saved on the FAFSA website…not on your email. You can retrieve any old FAFSA using your username and password information…at any time in the future.
I actually just did this today. I’m a teacher and my school is getting rid of the domain so I’m going to lose all my lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, everything in Google Drive. We were all debating how to best save our stuff and the easiest solution was to simply right click the folder in drive, download it, and then upload it to your personal account. It was SO easy - I don’t know why I was worrying about it for so long and looking at all these complicated options. A folder with 50 files in it took about ten seconds to download, then ten more to reupload on my personal drive.
@thumper1 I was actually referring to communication, not data. My mistake. For future communication it is better to use your personal email within FAFSA than a school email that you will lose upon graduation.
My son did not graduate yet but teacher had them copy all files in google drive that they use to share projects with teacher to their dedicated student drive.